On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:08:38PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:06:17AM -0500, Phil Frost wrote:
> > > Hrm...I haven't used windows for a while now, but isn't there an
> > > option on all shortcuts to command-line programs to make the shell
> > > pause on exit? It is something like, right click on shortcut, select
> > > 'properties', uncheck 'close shell on exit'. It would seem this would
> > > solve the problem of not being able to see errors, while also not
> > > adding a pause for programs which execute psql.bat directly.
> >
> > Yes, that is exactly the point -it would be very annoying in all other
> > cases, as Bruce pointed out.
> >
> > I guess another option would be to add a commandline option to psql to
> > pause on error, but I don't think that's going to fly ;-)
>
> Notice EXIT_BADCONN. So, what if we call psql from a batch file, and
> check for a '2' exit status, and then issue a pause for only that case?
I have applied a fix for the 8.3 pginstaller that does just this. Will be
in the next snapshot/release.
//Magnus
